- Choose an inquiry activity that you will use for your informal assessment review.
- The activity I will be using as my inquiry assignment is the project on building bridges that I recently completed with my seventh grade students at Scituate Middle School. This is a portion of a unit on earthquakes and catastrophic events. Students are required to plan, model, and construct a bridge that would be able to withstand an earthquake. Each student is also responsible for daily writing in a journal which could be used as an informal assessment of student progress as well as what students are taking away from the project.
- Explain what science practice(s) it will teach and how you plan to assess them.
- Students will be using the scientific method throughout the building process, through testing, observing, questioning and hypothesizing.
- Students will be communicating their findings through the final "write up" they will complete for this project which will include their building plans, observations, adaptations, and progress as well as whether or not their bridge was successful after testing
- Students can do this assignment in one of 3 ways, PowerPoint, PhotoStory, or Traditional Write up.